During the Song Dynasty, there was an old carpenter named Chu Wanli in Qingshui County, Suzhou, who was more than half a hundred years old, the carpenter's craftsmanship was pure, the furniture was novel, strong and durable, and it was even more important to help people to put beams on the house.
In the spring of that year, Chu Wanli went to the city to help a rich man's house to be beamed, and he worked all day, and when he returned home, it was already dark. Unexpectedly, he walked to the entrance of the village, but saw an acquaintance, who was standing at the entrance of the village with a white lantern waiting for him.
The man's name was Mu Rongbo, who was also a carpenter, and although he and Chu Wanli were in the same door, the relationship between the two was not good, and Mu Rongbo was jealous that Chu Wanli's craftsmanship was better than his own, and he was even more annoyed that he lowered the price to work for the poor, believing that he had lowered the status of a carpenter.
Chu Wanli had always looked down on Mu Rongbo for the rich people, only working for the rich people, the two brothers looked down on each other, and the two rarely interacted. Therefore, when Chu Wanli learned that Mu Rongbo was waiting for him at the mouth of the village, he was very surprised in his heart, he took the initiative to find himself, what was the matter?
Seeing Chu Wanli come over, Mu Rongbo greeted him with a smile: "Brother Master, tonight is my son's big day, I think about it, if you don't come, it will not be complete after all." The previous things are all bad for me, I hope that the master brother does not care, you will appreciate the light to drink a cup of joy bar! ”
Chu Wanli saw that Mu Rongbo had a sincere attitude, and thought that the two did not have any deep hatred, so he smiled and agreed. He didn't even go home, he directly followed Mu Rongbo to the wedding feast, but he didn't expect that when he arrived at Mu Rongbo's house, he found something wrong.
Chu Wanli came to Mu Rongbo's house, and Mu Rongbo invited him to sit down at the wine table and went to entertain other guests. After Chu Wanli sat down, he looked around for acquaintances, but he searched for half a day, but he didn't see an acquaintance, and what made him feel even more strange was that these guests who came to the wedding feast were all pale and expressionless, and even the action of drinking tea was very stiff.
Chu Wanli felt particularly strange when he saw this scene, these people came to the wedding feast, why didn't they laugh? He felt more and more strange in his heart that this wedding feast was strange, and just as he was about to get up and ask Mu Rongbo why, suddenly someone tapped him on the shoulder, and when he looked back, his face turned white with fright.
The person who only saw him tapping on the shoulder was his master Yu Tingzhen, who had been dead for three years. Yu Tingzhen pulled Chu Wanli up, pulled him to the door and whispered, "This is not the place you should come from, you go fast, it will be too late!" ”
Yu Tingzhen said and pushed Chu Wanli to the door, Chu Wanli wanted to ask what was going on, but before he could speak, he saw Mu Rongbo with several people chasing him up and directly surrounding him in the middle. Chu Wanli didn't know, "Brother Master, what are you doing?" ”
Mu Rongbo sneered, "If it wasn't for you, how could I end up with a tragic death?" Chu Wanli, if I die, you don't want to live! ”
After Mu Rongbo finished speaking, he turned into a ghost with a shawl, his face was iron blue, and he was covered in blood, he took several small ghosts and pounced on Chu Wanli with his teeth and claws, Chu Wanli saw that he was busy taking out the ink bucket around his waist, he dripped a drop of blood in the ink bucket box, and used the ink bucket line to bounce at Mu Rongbo and those little ghosts.
The ghosts were most afraid of the ink bucket line, the ink bucket line bounced on them, they immediately issued a heart-rending shout, Chu Wanli took the opportunity to run out of Mu Rongbo's house. Chu Wanli was so frightened that his head did not return, and he ran home in one breath before he was completely relieved.
Later, it was yu Tingzhen who gave Chu Wanli a dream, and he knew the cause and effect of the matter. It turned out that Mu Rongbo could not receive good business because his craftsmanship was inferior to Chu Wanli, so he used the carpenter spells he learned from his master to do some unseemly deeds. Some time ago, Mu Rongbo received money given by a rich man surnamed Li to assassinate a rich man with a high surname, but he did not expect that there was a high person behind the high rich man's guidance, and it was found out that Mu Rongbo was playing a ghost, and the high rich man let a fire burn mu Rongbo's whole family in a rage.
Mu Rongbo himself killed the whole family, but he blamed Chu Wanli, which found Chu Wanli to take revenge, fortunately Chu Wanli escaped by relying on the ink bucket box.
After Chu Wanli learned the truth, he secretly found out the evidence that the rich man killed Mu Rongbo's family, and then reported the rich man to the official palace, and the rich man was eventually sentenced to death. After the death of the rich man, Chu Wanli took the sacrifice to mu Rongbo's grave to worship, and told Mu Rongbo about the high rich man's fufa, and Mu Rongbo was repaid with a great vengeance, so he was reincarnated. Since then, Chu Wanli has never encountered anything strange again.
Editor's Note: It is often said that good and evil will eventually be rewarded, which means that there will eventually be retribution for doing good or doing evil, but it is only a matter of time. If Mu Rongbo hadn't done evil things for money, maybe he wouldn't have ended up with a tragic death, and he would have been involved with his own family, and in the end he would have just blamed himself.
Disclaimer: This story is a fictional folk tale, based on folklore, strange talk, myths, stories, legends, etc., aiming to inherit, expand and develop China's folk cultural heritage, do not be linked to feudal superstition!
Written by: Flower Offender